Re: Takanohana is Out

["Bryant Garrigus" <bgarrigus@hotmail.com>]

I am a few days late in joining this thread, but I figured I would throw my 
2.4 yen in.

In American Football, it is customary for a player with a knee injury 
similar to Takanohana's to be out over a year, and not "up to speed" for 
nearly 2 years.  And many running backs never come back from such injuries.  
I for one am not surprised ad Taka's reluctance to come back, its quite 
possible the injury is really taking this long to heal properly.

That being said, I think you have a point about him being tentative coming 
back, for two reasons.  The first is that he might get hurt again, and the 
second is that he won't perform at the same level he was accustomed to 
before.  We all know that Taka holds his Yokozuna rank VERY seriously, and 
doesn't want to tarnish his title with a poor performance.

Gusoyama


From: Jeanne Hedge <jhedge@enteract.com>
>To: sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu
>Subject: Re: Takanohana is Out
>Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 11:34:49 -0500
>
>At 05:34 AM 7/4/02, Joe Kuroda wrote:
> >NHK's 7 PM news had a report on Takanohana missing the
> >Nagoya.
>
><snip>
>
> >There is a speculation that the surgery was botched
> >that he would never recover from the injury.
>
>LOTS OF SPECULATION BELOW:
>
>It seems to me that saying the surgery was botched is just a convenient
>excuse, and probably not true either.   How many times have we seen
>athletes have a 2nd (or 3rd or more) follow-up surgery to take care of
>problems still left after the original one? So if the operation of a year
>ago was "botched", then how come Takanohana hasn't had another operation?
>
>When coming back from an injury (not just knee injuries), sometimes people
>are afraid to fully commit whey they start back doing what they got injured
>doing in the first place. They get tentative, afraid they're going to get
>hurt again (I certainly was, coming back from the knee injury I got doing
>Tae Kwon Do). It's something you've got to work through, else you're just
>not going to be as good as you used to be, and many times, if you're
>tentative you *are* going to get hurt again.
>
>Without any first hand knowledge of Takanohana's situation on my part, it
>just seems to me that with all his "dancing around the subject", Takanohana
>may be having similar issues.  I think that he's afraid to even *try* (from
>reports from the various practice sessions, it sure sounds to me like he's
>not trying) for fear of getting injured again.  That, or he just doesn't
>want to do sumo any more but doesn't want to retire either.
>
>
>
>Jeanne
>
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>




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